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If you wish to contact us about events, publications and other general matters, please do so through the COMMENTS key below this Board.　We will reply to you also through the key. イベント、出版物、その他に関する一般連絡はこのコラム下のCOMMENTS キーにてお願いします。
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***HAILSTONE PUBLICATIONS***
HAILSTONES (2001) a haiku chapbook ￥700 (sold out)
LOST HEIAN (2003) a Japan-in-Asia haiku gathering ￥800 (discount price for last copies)
ENHAIKLOPEDIA (2005) a haiku almanac, incl. haibun ￥1,300 (reprinting now available, slightly larger format)
Lost Heian and Enhaiklopedia are currently available at Junkudo, 7F BAL Building, Kawaramachi, but no discount price for LH
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***EVENTS***
(PAST: documents are in other posts.)
March 12, 2006 Mt. Ogura Is Shedding Tears Part VII.
May 7, 2006 Ginko under fresh green leaves. 新緑の大山崎吟行
August 3, 2006 Summer Evening on the Water (Kukai)

(FORTHCOMING: for some events we still need organizers; offers and ideas through the COMMENTS key, please!)
August 26, 2006: Renga Meeting in Shokado Garden in Yawata city. Organizer: Gerald Staggers. See another post for details.
AUTUMN (Sep.-Nov.): 1-2 day Haike (haiku hike). Prob. October. Organizers: David McCullough & xxx.
Ginko under autumn leaves. Kyoto. November. Organizers: Moya Bligh & Keiko Yurugi.
WINTER (Dec.-Feb. 07): Rengakai, Kukai or Rodokukai Sharing? Prob. January '07. Rendezvous: Hankyu Aikawa, Osaka. Organizers: Mari Kawaguchi & xxx.

Long Meg & Her Daughters

Walk right around

The full circle ...

And only then

The solstice sun comes out.

(Tito, Little Selkeld, Cumbria, England, 20.6.06)

Summer Evening on the Water

DATE: July 20 (Thursday) 18:00 - 21:00

RENDEZVOUS:
18:00 Hankyu Arashiyama Station, just out of the ticket gate.

PROGRAM:
18:00 Rendezvous - (Ichitani Munagata Shrine) - 18:30 Boading (in front of the shrine) - (Cruising) - 19:30 Landing - Kukai (on the lawn nearby or at a cafe) - 21:00 Breakout
GUIDANCE:
It would be nice to be in the boat by 18:30 to catch the last of the daylight and drift through dusk to return after nightfall.
For kukai, please bring your recent haiku or fresh-composed ones on the boat. If you have any troubles with expressing your images, let’s discuss it.

NOTICE: IMPORTANT!
Please reserve your place soon! By JUNE 30 (FRIDAY), 06.
The boat fare is 1,700 yen.
Please apply to the organizers, Jane Wieman or Keiko Yurugi, or through the comment button under this post (in that case, by June 28).

O-YAMAZAKI GINKO: E-/Fax-Kukai results

Several days after the O-Yamazaki ginko (May 7, 2006), seven authors (ginko participants) submitted one or more haiku to the organizer and they, with the guest selector (Tito) and without the organizer, (seven in total) chose their 3-6 favorites. Here are the popular poems, in the order of our ginko procession:

10:00 Hankyu O-Yamazaki Station: Light spring rain / Too gentle for hailstones / Gathered at Oyamazaki (J. Wieman)
10:30 Asahi Beer Oyamazaki Villa Museum of Art: Enjoyed nice artworks of Monet, Bernard Leach et al., and its beautiful garden.

an old paulownia
in full bloom
above the new Villa-Museum (S. Sasaki)

green under green
the rain, licking leaves ...
a small stray from the brook (M. Kawaguchi)

12:00 Houshakuji Temple: Visited Yama (the King of Hell), Eleven-face Bodhisattva (a Buddhist Saint saving all people) and Daikokuten (one of the Seven Lucky Gods). breeze on Mt. Tenno - / sometimes hidden by fresh leaves / an old 3-storied pagoda (S. Sasaki)
13:30 Yamazaki Sokan’s Haiku Monument: May comes - / shrilly cries, / a laughing cuckoo (Sokan, 16th century, before Basho).
At vestige of a hut, where / Ancient poets had a kukai. / A purple paulownia petal fallen. (M. Kawaharada).

After lunch, hurried toward a distillery with a tacit understanding of our ultimate purpose.
before drink / lighting a cigarette - / out of Yama’s stare (H. Miyazaki)
On the way, there was a shortcut through a tunnel with a small stream alongside.
Into Stygian darkness / We plunge on our way / From the King of Hell / To Suntory Distillery (J. Wieman), and also on the way,

in a narrow patch
field peas plump with spring…
f f f f f f f f f (K. Yurugi)

15:00 Suntory Distillery: Studied the zymurgy of whisky making.

at the mash-house door -
a grandmother swallows
the hot, sweet stink of whisky (D. McCulough)

16:30 JR Yamazaki station: Still gently raining. Punctually dispersed.

Small Worlds ー A Mini Sequence

a bee boards the bus...threat of rain

my backyard: wasps expand their territory

cool breeze...tonight i'm faster than the mosquitos




Duro Jaiye

11th International “KUSAMAKURA” Haiku Competition

11th International “KUSAMAKURA” Haiku Competition Meet, November 26 (Sunday), 2006, in Kumamoto City, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan.
Haiku application deadline: September 29, 2006 (Postmarked on this day).
Application: Up to two haiku, free of charge. Name, nationality, gender, age, address, phone number, (occupation) and (email address), please.
Awards: Grand Prize; Round trip air fare to Kumamoto, accommodations for 4 days, 3 nights at a local hotel and 50,000 yen. 1st prize; 5,000 yen. 2nd prize; 1,000 yen.
Send your haiku to: “Kusamakura” Haiku Competition, c/o Bunka Shinko ka (Cultural Promotion Section), City of Kumamoto, 1-1 Tetorihoncho, Kumamoto City 860-8601, Japan.
For more information: http://www.jonet.ne.jp/kusamakura/